ReWilding EMDR: Nature, Play, and Sandtray for Profound Transformation
ReWilding EMDR
1ST Generation
A Transformative 5-Day Retreat-Style Training for EMDR Therapists
Hosted at Momma Owl’s Minis | Molina, Florida
Heal Generations. Transform Lives. Reconnect to What Matters.
This isn’t just a training—it’s a MOVEMENT.
It’s time to take your EMDR work deeper. Into nature. Into the body. Into the soul.
ReWilding EMDR is a first-of-its-kind immersive retreat for EMDR-trained therapists of all specialties and populations—whether you work with children, teens, adults, couples, or families.
Led by Jackie Flynn, Alisha Denham, and Catherine Denham, this sacred 5-day experience will shift the way you do therapy—forever.
Why ReWilding EMDR?
You’ve trained hard. You believe in EMDR. But you know there’s more.
More depth. More presence. More connection.
This retreat gives you just that.
ReWilding EMDR: Rooted in Fidelity. Guided by Nature.
This EMDRIA-approved advanced training stays true to the Adaptive Information Processing (AIP) model and all 8 phases of EMDR therapy, while bringing the healing power of nature, play, and Sandtray into every phase of EMDR with FIDELITY to the basic.
Here’s a glimpse into what you’ll experience:
Phase 1: History Taking
Gather a rich, meaningful history while attuning to body cues, environmental context, and intergenerational threads—shaping a clinical picture rooted in relationship and rhythm.
Phase 2: Preparation
Use nature-based, nervous-system-informed practices to build safety and regulation—through rhythm, movement, symbolic play, and sensory connection.
Phase 3: Assessment
Identify targets anchored in nature’s safety, helping clients access the core of trauma they’ve carried—often before they had language to name it.
Phase 4: Desensitization
Engage natural bilateral stimulation—walking, tapping, or sound—within EMDR’s standard protocols to support adaptive shifts, guided by nature’s living example of resilience and survival.
Phase 5: Installation
Strengthen positive beliefs through body-based anchoring and nature-aligned integration—so new learning becomes embodied, grounded, and enduring.
Phase 6: Body Scan
Support somatic awareness using nature-informed tools that help clients detect and release residual tension, restoring balance in the nervous system.
Phase 7: Closure
Use ritual, rhythm, and the elements to stabilize and integrate—offering a grounded return from the work, held by nature’s containment and care.
Phase 8: Reevaluation
Return to targets with presence and clarity, using felt sense, whole-brain awareness, and nature-based insight to assess whether adaptive resolution has fully taken root.
This isn’t just a retreat—it’s a transformative training experience designed for real-world integration.
Whether you practice indoors, outdoors, or somewhere in between, ReWilding EMDR offers a full continuum of application.
You’ll leave with tools and insights that translate across settings—supporting deep, regulated healing wherever your work takes place.
This immersive training includes:
✔️ 12 hours of Sandtray Therapy training, rooted in clinical integrity and experiential learning
✔️ A full EMDR refresher, maintaining fidelity to all 8 phases and the AIP model
✔️ Nature-based applications that go beyond technique—offering a felt, lived understanding of the ReWilding approach
This is not a training you’ll walk away from unchanged.
You’ll experience what it means to ReWild your work—and yourself—in ways that expand your practice and stay with you long after the retreat ends.
Through the integration of nature-based therapy, Sandtray, play, and EMDR, you'll learn how to:
✔️ Support nervous system regulation in and beyond the therapy room
✔️ Help clients access healing through movement, symbolism, and nature
✔️ Work with generational trauma in ways that words simply can’t reach
✔️ Deepen your clinical intuition and reconnect to your why
This training is not limited to child and teen therapists—it’s designed for all EMDR clinicians who are ready to reconnect with their work in a powerful, embodied, and nature-integrated way.
What’s Included
This isn’t a conference. It’s an all-inclusive healing experience:
✔️ 5 immersive training days with experiential learning, nature walks, and expressive activities
✔️ Lodging and meals included at Miss Patty’s Lodge—so you can stay present and nourished
✔️ Exclusive access to Momma Owl’s symbolic nature-based Sandtray miniatures
✔️ The ReWilding EMDR Clinician Kit, complete with:
- Rustic workbook + reference sheets
- Tree-branch pencils
- Integration handouts for EMDR with fidelity
- The ReWilding Therapy Emotion Literacy Card Deck
- All bundled in a keepsake burlap bag
Plus: optional beach trip and dinner at Momma Owl's favorite local spot in Pensacola
What You’ll Walk Away With
By the end of the retreat, you’ll be able to:
✔️ Integrate Sandtray into all 8 phases of EMDR with confidence
✔️ Use nature and play to support trauma resolution, emotional regulation, and deeper processing
✔️ Create healing spaces—indoors or outdoors—that regulate the nervous system and awaken inner wisdom
✔️ Guide your clients through transformational work that touches their lineage—not just their life
Daily Flow Sneak Peek
Day 1: Grounding the Journey – Create sacred space and begin the ReWilding process
Day 2: Healing Ancestral Wounds – Use EMDR and nature to honor lineage and invite repair
Day 3: Emotional Expression – Shift trauma into healing through the power of play and sand
Day 4: Nature & Neurobiology – Explore somatic and bilateral tools in natural settings
Day 5: Integration Ceremony – Solidify your learning with a symbolic Plant Propagation Ritual
You Belong Here If…
You’re an EMDR-trained therapist ready for the next level
You work with any age—kids, teens, adults, families, couples
You believe healing is more than protocols—it’s connection, presence, and play
You want to support trauma healing that goes beyond words
You’re craving renewal—for yourself and your clients
The Details
Location:
Momma Owl’s Minis, Molina, Florida
Continuing Education Credits:
EMDRIA
Approved Provider EC Program Approval Number: #19012
EMDRIA Credits: PENDING Approval for 15 EC Provider Jacqueline Flynn (#19012).
Eligibility for EMDRIA credits is restricted to those who have completed an EMDRIA-Approved Basic EMDR Training.
Association for Play Therapy
15 Live CE Hours for Association for Play Therapy (APT) – Approved by APT Approved Provider Jacqueline Flynn (#20-628).
For additional state licensure information, including APA approval, please refer to the CE tab to see current status. Continuing Education Credit Hours are available from several organizations and are currently pending approval.
All-Inclusive Investment: Training, lodging at Miss Patty's Retreat Center, delicious meals, and all supplies and materials included
Join the First "GENERATION" of ReWilding EMDR Therapists
Space is limited and this experience will not be repeated in the same way.
Be part of something sacred. Be part of something new. Be part of the movement.
Reserve Your Spot Now and begin your ReWilding journey.